Hacker News: mjmas

New comment by mjmas in "DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it"

mjmas — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:40:12 +0000

> $0.001 cent

https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know...

New comment by mjmas in "Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua"

mjmas — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:19:33 +0000

> Lua uses 64-bit double floats for everything

Not true in Lua >= 5.3. 64-bit signed integers are included in the number type now. And there is a math.ult function for treating them as unsigned.

And so 0x7fffffffffffffff is representable properly.

New comment by mjmas in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

mjmas — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:25:13 +0000

Why do brands often have ALL CAPS® as a trademark rather than normal case?

New comment by mjmas in "Dupes took over the world"

mjmas — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:19:34 +0000

To clarify, Uggs originated in Australia and are a generic term here. Deckers owns a trademark outside Australia and is enforcing it against people in Australia.

It would be like if a US company registered Champagne as a trademark then enforced it against French companies selling it.

New comment by mjmas in "Dupes took over the world"

mjmas — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:43:39 +0000

A generic Australian product. But however Deckers owns Ugg as a trademark everywhere but here and NZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugg_boots_trademark_dispute

New comment by mjmas in "Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law"

mjmas — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:21:34 +0000

Perhaps you could take it up with your ISP or whoever is doing mitm?

New comment by mjmas in "Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled"

mjmas — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:17:54 +0000

HN does have the important bit though:

New comment by mjmas in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

mjmas — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:27:56 +0000

https://www.hwaci.com/

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23511151

New comment by mjmas in "Remote Attestation"

mjmas — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:36:58 +0000

Doing it for company-owned laptops seems a lot different than doing it for customers' devices. I think the complaint is more about the latter.

New comment by mjmas in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

mjmas — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:28:15 +0000

Probably, but not at any meaningful concentration.

New comment by mjmas in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

mjmas — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:42:15 +0000

Pulled out of fair hat. Guaranteed to be random.

New comment by mjmas in "Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years"

mjmas — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:24:59 +0000

Similar to wifi et al using light beyond the range of human seeing.

New comment by mjmas in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

mjmas — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:49:45 +0000

aka spirit level?

New comment by mjmas in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

mjmas — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:49:48 +0000

We have our NBN fibre here in Australia and it works fine. We can get 1000 down / 400 up for ~100USD.

New comment by mjmas in "How to corrupt an SQLite database file"

mjmas — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:22:16 +0000

POSIX compatibility

> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/op...

> The open() function shall return a file descriptor for the named file that is the lowest file descriptor not currently open for that process.

New comment by mjmas in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

mjmas — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:10:12 +0000

English too

New comment by mjmas in "Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering"

mjmas — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:35:32 +0000

> jam the same stream.

To add to that, other people won't be able to spoof the original stream (as that needs the private key), but instead only jam it.

It would be the same failure mode as SSL certificates.

New comment by mjmas in "A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M"

mjmas — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:27:52 +0000

Does the US have the same distinction we have here in Australia where there will be a small local government area in the centre of a city named that?

For example, the City of Sydney LGA is only one of 33 LGAs that make up what is normally known as Sydney.

New comment by mjmas in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

mjmas — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:37:46 +0000

Or if your editor is happy to store them in a subfolder that is useful. I use Sublime with the AutoProjects extension and it puts .sublime-project snd .sublime-workspace under a .sublime folder that I can have a .gitignore * underneath.

New comment by mjmas in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

mjmas — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:34:39 +0000

Not OP, but I have an Asus StudioBook 17.

Of what is builtin, the fingerprint reader and the numberpad functionality of the touchpad don't work.

Everything else works fine though.